Articles in Museum News
MOCA GA Announces the 2012 MOCA GALA Art Auction Fundraiser On Saturday, April 21
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) announces its annual MOCA GALA Art Auction 2012 on Saturday, April 21, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. at its exhibition galleries on Bennett Street. Honorees for MOCA GALA 2012 are two of Atlanta’s most well-known and well-loved art supporters, Carolyn and Gudmund Vigtel. The GALA Committee includes Sara and Jeffrey Hehir as Host Committee co-chairs and Philip and Melissa Babb as Event co-chairs and Patron Party hosts. The ever ... Read More
National Gallery of Victoria announces appointment of director and trustee
Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu announced the appointment of Mr Tony Ellwood as the new Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, and the re-appointment of Mr Allan Myers AO QC as President of the NGV Council of Trustees. Mr Baillieu said that after a national and international search, Tony Ellwood had been appointed to succeed long-serving NGV Director Dr Gerard Vaughan. Mr Ellwood will begin his new role on 1 August 2012. “I am delighted to welcome Tony Ellwood back to ... Read More
The Power Plant announces Dissenting Histories. 25 Years of The Power Plant
The Power Plant presents Dissenting Histories. 25 Years of The Power Plant, on view 24 March–3 September, 2012. Curated by Melanie O’Brian, Curator & Head of Programs. Dissenting Histories: 25 Years of The Power Plant is a dynamic project designed to exhibit, activate, reconsider, and put into dialogue the gallery’s rich histories. Designed by Markus Miessen, a German architect and writer who has considered the history of the institution at length and contributed to our thinking ... Read More
National Gallery of Victoria presents Time Catcher exhibition
The National Gallery of Victoria presents Time Catcher, an exhibition on view through 11 November 2012 at The Ian Potter Centre. NGV Kids Corner has transformed into a time capsule for the new exhibition. Drawn entirely from the NGV Collection, this exhibition will take visitors on a journey from ancient Egypt to the modern day. Children and their families will be able to see the extraordinary designs on a 14th century vase reproduced on a bust created over 600 years later. Incorporating a ... Read More
Raven Row opens Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the CSROT
Raven Row presents Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the CSROT, on view 1 March–6 May 2012. Raven Row presents the first exhibition of the collection of historic textiles assembled by Seth Siegelaub over the past thirty years for the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (CSROT). The exhibition will feature over 200 items from a collection currently comprising around 650. It will include woven and printed textiles, embroideries and costume, ranging from fifth-century Coptic to ... Read More
Luck of the Blog Post. A 30-Year Art History Mystery Is Solved at the Rosenbach Museum & Library
PHILADELPHIA — Concluding a 30-year mystery, the Rosenbach Museum & Library has located and acquired a portrait of an early member of the Gratz Family, prominent Jewish early Americans who made their home in Philadelphia. Through a shot-in-the-dark blog-post query, a little luck and a donor with a romantic streak, the presumed-lost portrait of Maria Cecil Gist Gratz has made its way from Georgia to the Rosenbach, joining an assembly of other Gratz family portraits (including a painting ... Read More
Art Gallery of South Australia presents Allegoria Sacra
The Art Gallery of South Australia presents Allegoria Sacra the monumental new video work by celebrated international collective AES+F. On exhibit 25 February until 3 June 2012.AES+F, Allegoria Sacra, 2011, video still images; Acquired through the Contemporary Collectors’ Director’s Project © AES+F Courtesy Triumph Gallery, Moscow Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Nick Mitzevich says ‘Allegoria Sacra’ is the third work by Russian collective AES+F in a broadly conceived ... Read More
Musee departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart presents Irmavep Lab and Maurice Blaussyld
Musee departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart presents Irmavep Club : Livret IV & Livret V (Maurice Blaussyld), on view 29 February–10 June 2012. Irmavep Lab, a collective of artists and curators, began its activity in 2003 with a series of events in Chatillon-sur-Marne in the house of Musidora, actress in Louis Feuillade’s Vampire film. In a second phase, the group became Irmavep Club and continued its action as an artist-run space without a fixed space. Following the two ... Read More
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein announces David Zink Yi exhibition
The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents David Zink Yi, an exhibition on view 3 March–29 April 2012. Opening: Friday, 2 March, 7 pmDavid Zink Yi, Video still, “Horror Vacui,” 2009 The exhibition of David Zink Yi (born 1973 in Lima/Peru) at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is premiering the video installation Horror Vacui (2009) in Berlin, as well as a new photographs from the series Twilight Images. The pictures, gelatin silver prints on baryta paper, show a public park in Havana at ... Read More
LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts announces Ubuntu Charity Benefit
Ubuntu Charity Benefit, Art Show and Film Screening to benefit Russell Simmons’ Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation – Proceeds benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Education & Gallery Programs The Ubuntu Charity Benefit, will take place on March 1, 2012 and include an art exhibit, film screening and live auction featuring emerging African artists. The event will take place at the historic LA Artcore Gallery & Art Center located at 120 Judge John Aiso Street in Los Angeles, ... Read More
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